Surfing the 9′ Soft Top in Foam Waves and Real Waves makes surfing easier for beginners and adults. The board has a lot of volume for easy paddling, easy wave catching and easy pop ups. The beginner surfer begins in foam waves. I start any surfer over 115 pounds on a 9′ soft top. Over…
Getting Off Early in Real Waves is important for timing. I mean in catching them and getting in front of dropping lip. Waiting too long and getting trapped by falling lip ruins the ride. It can start with the timing in learning to catch foam waves. I find all beginners don’t understand hard paddling and…
Surfers Learn to Ride Real Waves after they have perfected their techniques on foam waves. Beginners begin on soft top boards, but most of them transition easily to riding real waves. The necessary techniques can be practiced on soft tops because timing is the essential for most beginners. The beginner surfer learns to catch foam…
Many adults have surfing on their bucket list and when they visit Oceanside, they know it is a good place to learn What Are the Difficulties for Adults Learning to Surf? In the dry land lesson, I mention in the process of popping up that flexibility is important. This is a big adult problem. Even…
Surfing is more challenging when a person is over weight. There are various aspects of lifting the body off the board and balancing that are more difficult with more body weight. Being overweight makes surfing a challenge but Overweight People Can Train to Surf. It requires a program of discipline to lose weight, get stronger,…
One of the most fun aspects of watching surfing is their carving and New Surfers Want to Carve. Carving practice can begin in foam waves and when I have students who are able to ride straight to the beach in a balanced posture, I introduce carving. Beginner Surfers should learn to ride on the board…
The most difficult part of learning to surf is Beginner Surfers Must Override Their Instincts. Learning to surf is a function of a persons ability to learn. There are a lot of details at the beginning and many people, of all ages, don’t have the capacity to learn details. When giving new students the dry…
Learn to Surf in the First Oceanside Lesson with the proper fundamentals. Surfing is about timing and rhythm and the first lesson shows beginners the timing and rhythm of a sequence. The surfing sequence from catching a wave to riding looks seamless in a movie. Beginners without lessons have great difficulty with the timing. They…
Learning to surf is more technical than new surfers expect but there are 5 Techniques Beginner Surfers Learn. The techniques are often quite different than beginner surfer instincts which is why most cannot learn on their own. One of the biggest challenges of teaching people to surf is their own instincts are wrong but they…
Beginner Surfers Can Transition from Foam Waves to Real Waves. They can begin this process after they have mastered riding foam waves to the beach. The important fundamentals beginner surfers learn are to catch foam waves and learn the timing of spotting the right wave, rolling over on the soft top in waist deep water,…